Do you trim your dog's fur?

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 09-27-2005, 09:08 PM

For those of you with a medium to long coated dog, do you trim their fur?

I'm constantly trimming Tango, I can't stand her to have long hair between her toes/pads, on her ears and too much fur on her feathering and tail. I trim her for both appearance and her comfort. If I keep her paw fur long she slips on the tile in my kitchen really easy and if I keep her ears, tail and feathering long she seems to get mats really easily no matter how many times daily I brush her so obviously those wouldn't be comfortable for her. I also just like to live with a neat/tidy looking dog and for some reason I really enjoy spending time grooming her and she seems to like it also....

**cali** · 09-27-2005, 10:33 PM

my mom is constantly badgering me because I clip Happy so much lol but I hate it when he hair gets too long, I keep her ears, pants, feet, and feathering trimmed, she looks neater, pluse she HATES being brushed, so it reduses the amount of time I need to spend grooming her, plus she likes crawling in bushes if I dont trim her pants the branches get all cought up in them and are difficult to remove. we normally keep blairs hair trimmed short as he has a cording coat and after my mom had a Puli she never wants to deal with cords again lol he looks better with his hair long but it needs brushed twice a day, we are growing it out again, but that mainly for his up and comming freestyle routine to the song "hair" his head is trimed on a regular basis as he never developed a brow so the hair falls over his eyes and he cant see, the breed is SUPPOSED to develope a brow that forces the front hair backwards. the rest all have short hair lol

**gkristian** · 09-28-2005, 12:38 AM

well with a sheltie you only have to trip them around the ears just to keep the tidy. apart from this i don't do any other triming

**vinjashira** · 09-28-2005, 05:39 AM

snowy is broken coated - she was clipped once when she was 9 months but I think I will let the hair grow and never clip it again.

**just me** · 09-28-2005, 09:09 AM

We have a Golden Retriever and a Great Pyrenees
and we have to trim them all the time. they will get matted if we dont. As a matter of fact I should do it today.
After we brush them if there is any matts I trim them out, trying not to make it noticeable.

Just me...

**PJ's Mom** · 09-28-2005, 09:16 AM

Peej gets groomed every month, so I don't trim his fur.

Bailey gets her foot hair, ear hair and butt fur trimmed every month or two.

**ParNone** · 09-28-2005, 09:38 AM

No trimming needed for the Collies, but I give Murph, what I call the 10 minute kitchen do. Snip, Snip here, Snip, Snip there, to tidy him up, without too much attention to making it all even. Speed being the main goal. He ends up a lil' uneven, but since he's scruffy, it's not real noticable and he's very happy with the speed of the operation.

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**IRescue452** · 09-28-2005, 09:43 AM

Oh yes. I always keep Autumn neatly trimmed. Only in the winter I let her paw fur grow long enough to keep her feet warm. You'd wonder why I got a toller if you see how much work I put into neatly trimming her legs and butt and ears, but I love grooming my dogs and they love it too. I condition my dogs as puppies to be neatly trimmed snots. I sit and brush them and teach them to stand on a crate to be brushed and the whole time I tell them how beautiful they'll look. Autumn really took to this as a pup so I started calling her Madonna. When I have her pose for something I always tell her to act like she's Madonna.

**sammy101** · 09-28-2005, 05:50 PM

Lucy gets trimmed a couple times a month.Kodie doesnt need to be trimmed

**Flatcoatluver** · 09-28-2005, 08:19 PM

right before i show zoey i have to trim her feet and her ears, but when she dosn't show i let it grow naturally, t.j. i don't have to cut, but we do cut his hair in hunting season or he gets burs (SP)
in his hair

**chocolatepuppy** · 09-28-2005, 08:43 PM

I only have to trim the long hair off Mandys butt!

It gets pretty long and can get a little messy, especially after she just had UTI and pees all over it!

**wolf_Q** · 09-28-2005, 10:30 PM

Nebo gets his feet trimmed. Can't stand fuzzy feet! I also trim a tiny bit above the feet on his legs too. Other than that, no trimming. I wouldn't dream of ever clipping his coat shorter.

Reggie and Sydney get shaved (by me) every 1-2 months usually a really short version of a schnauzer cut.

**k9krazee** · 09-29-2005, 08:44 PM

I don't have any "groomable" dogs

Someday...

**Flatcoatluver** · 09-29-2005, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by wolf_Q
Nebo gets his feet trimmed. Can't stand fuzzy feet! I also trim a tiny bit above the feet on his legs too. Other than that, no trimming. I wouldn't dream of ever clipping his coat shorter.

Reggie and Sydney get shaved (by me) every 1-2 months usually a really short version of a schnauzer cut.

I don't like fuzzt feet either